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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Then Walsh ushered in Kolya, a 145-lb. shaggy white Great Pyrenees, who climbed right up onto the woman's bed and snuggled against her body. Five minutes passed in silence. Then the woman's hand moved slowly toward the dog. She began to stroke his soft, thick coat. Another five minutes passed. The woman smiled and murmured, "So lovely..." "For half an hour she kept petting him and calling him 'my friend,'" says Walsh. "The whole time, I watched the blood-pressure monitor go down, down, down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canine Candy Stripers | 8/6/2001 | See Source »

...have unforeseen consequences in the complex biological interaction between genes. Dalmatians are prone to deafness, maybe due to some genetic link between hearing and white pigmentation. Dogs with large irregular patches and splotches are less prone, but prize-winning Dalmatians have small spots on a large expanse of white coat - the genetic characteristics that accompany deafness. All these diseases create distress to dogs and owners, and as Dogs Today editor Beverley Cuddy notes, "It's possible to rack up huge bills at the vet without much trouble, as dogs become more unhealthy." The British bulldog, once used for bull-baiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Flawed Beauty | 8/6/2001 | See Source »

...Regarding this work as an essential like food, by 1986 he apprenticed to a cabinetmaker and seven years after toiled in a basement shop. In 1995, he became owner of this storefront showcase and workshop. Letter holders, games, and pencil holders sell for $25. Beds, bookcases, tables, entertainment centers, coat racks, computer desks can be custom ordered in modern or country style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Shopping Bag: A Harlem Stroll | 8/2/2001 | See Source »

...decisions. Despite my previous lab experience, when I found a job opening in a fly lab at Rockefeller University, I jumped at the chance. Any job would be better than three months of sitting at home with daytime TV (shudder). So, despite having sworn never to don a lab coat again, I steadied my resolve, and again picked up the pipette...

Author: By Robert J. Fenster, | Title: POSTCARD FROM NEW YORK: Finding Responsibility | 7/20/2001 | See Source »

...rejection of guilt, and an energetic and public search for the missing girl, might have diverted the media into a less-interesting missing-persons adventure. But while dature may abhor a vacuum, dark media suspicions flower in one. Condit's public pose - the politician's equivalent of pulling your coat over your head - has left the hordes one of two impressions: of a cowardly (and foolish) innocent or a cagey monster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Person of the Week: Gary Condit | 7/13/2001 | See Source »

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